How can policing best communicate our ambitions, decisions and use of science and technology to improve public awareness and understanding?
Background
"Policing’s Areas of Research Interest (ARIs) are underpinned by three enduring challenges that are relevant to all of the question groups, which reflect our seven service lines. We are keen, therefore, that they are given prominent consideration in everything that we do.
1. Building and maintaining public trust
2. Future workforce and training
3. Responding to the climate crisis
1. Building and maintaining public trust:
The National Police Chiefs' Council commits to delivering innovation that is proportionate, fair, ethical, legal, and supported by the public. We have a ‘transparency first’ ethos, viewing this approach as one of many of our efforts to build public trust. Thus, underpinning all our ARIs is a need to understand how the public feels about our science and technology."
Next steps
"We welcome your engagement with our ARIs in the following ways:
• If you have evidence that completely or partly supports or answers one of our ARIs, we invite you to share that with us. For any ongoing research relevant to policing and crime reduction, we encourage you to register your research on the College of Policing’s research projects map, which has been designed to promote collaboration and support requests for participants.
• If you are, or plan to be, carrying out research that relates to one of our ARIs, we’d like to hear about it. While we cannot respond to speculative approaches for research funding, we will where possible act to support your ambitions, including finding you policing partners where possible.
• If you are submitting a funding or grant application that aligns with one of our ARIs, we hope that referencing policing’s ARIs will help to strengthen your case for the possible public impact of the research.
• We will use the ARI document to structure our academic engagement, prioritise events and build new connections with external partners. We will be using our ARIs in our engagement with UKRI, and we will publish any opportunities for funding via our website https://science.police.uk/
Please send any correspondence and questions to [email protected], including ‘ARI’ in the subject heading."
Source
This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:
Related UKRI funded projects
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Policing Academic Centre of Excellence
The Yorkshire Policing-Academic Centre of Excellence (TYP-ACE) will mobilise the best research and innovation evidence across the universities of Leeds and York to improve public trust and confidence in policing, enhance...
Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: University of Leeds
Why might this be relevant?
The project specifically focuses on improving public trust and confidence in policing through science and innovation, addressing the core aspect of the question.
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Policing Academic Centre of Excellence
Context & challenge: The Scottish Policing Academic Centre of Excellence (SPACE) brings together interdisciplinary academic expertise in three key substantive themes: Safety, Prevention, and Analytics; underpin...
Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: Edinburgh Napier University
Why might this be relevant?
The project addresses improving public confidence and ethics in policing, which is related to the question, but does not fully cover the use of science and technology aspect.
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Policing Academic Centre of Excellence
This application comes from a consortium of three Universities – University of Leicester, Aston University and the University of Birmingham, to form the Policing Academic Centre of Excellence, Leicester, Aston, Birmingha...
Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM
Why might this be relevant?
The project focuses on building and maintaining public trust in policing, but does not fully address the use of science and technology aspect mentioned in the question.